From Sin City to Mexican tech hub?

Walk into the building that once housed Tijuana’s main bus station and you are met with a dazzling display of color and natural light. Front and center of this effort is the bus station which is now home to a dynamic tech cluster of international companies such as Uber and Yelp. Soon after, HUBSTN (short for Hub Station), a place where aspiring tech firms and established international companies alike could set up shop, was born.

The Terminal Turistico Tijuana was once a bustling gateway to the Mexican border city, acting as an arrivals hall for many a tourist on the way to vacation excess.

It was 2010, and violence was gripping Tijuana as drug gangs fought for territory and settled scores.

Given that the city of 1.3 million people is just over the border from California, HUBSTN’s geography is a key selling point to potential clients.

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We would like to thank our millions of readers who inspired us with positive feedback and liberal sharing of ideas to help bring the best content to light and keep everybody informed about what is current and important.

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Today we’re announcing that after two years of helping people discover and share great news via this website we will be shutting down this service on June 30.

We would like to thank our millions of readers who inspired us with positive feedback and liberal sharing of ideas to help bring the best content to light and keep everybody informed about what is current and important.

We are working hard to give the new site a 'lift' which will bring you an even better product that will give you exclusive access to socially-vetted, high-quality news. The new product will give great content the engagement and social reach it deserves. It will also help creators to get trusted feedback about their content to truly understand what their audience is passionate about.